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11:50 AM ET, August 18, 2016

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Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Steve Bannon's Plan to Free Donald Trump and Save His Campaign  —  Along with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, Bannon will encourage Trump to cast aside political niceties and aggressively go with his gut.  —  JoshuaGreen  —  “I am who I am,” Donald Trump declared …
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Ken Stern / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Stephen Bannon, Trump's New C.E.O., Hints at His Master Plan  —  Can the man behind Breitbart—a Harvard M.B.A. who worked at Goldman Sachs and made a killing off of Seinfeld—save Trump?  And at what cost?  —  Even for a campaign creating regular media tremors …
The Daily Beast:
Alt Right Rejoices At Trump's Steve Bannon Hire  —  As Breitbart's chief Steve Bannon did a lot to normalize the racist, anti-semitic world of the Alt-Right, they couldn't be happier he has now joined the campaign of their king, Donald Trump.  —  Donald Trump's campaign is under new management …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump doubles down in naming a combative true believer as campaign chief
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Daily Mail:
What robbery?  Brazilian police say Ryan Lochte's wallet was detected in X-ray scan AFTER he claims it was seized at gunpoint as officers launch probe into star's dramatic hold-up story  — Police arrived to the Olympic Village on Wednesday to seize the passports of Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen
Bloomberg:
Uber's First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month  —  Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world's experts in autonomous vehicles.  The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University's …
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Clinton Rises to 348 Electoral Votes, Trump Drops to 190  —  Clinton now above 270 Safe or Likely Democratic electoral votes for the first time  —  New Hampshire may just have four electoral votes, but it's important.  If you doubt it, just ask any Granite State citizens, and they'll tell you about their first-in-the-nation primary.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump on Clinton campaign: 'She doesn't really do that much'  —  is questioning the amount of work Hillary Clinton  —  is putting into her campaign and said that her schedule is unfair.  —  “She doesn't really do that much.  She'll give a speech on teleprompter, and then she'll disappear.
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump: Clinton ‘takes a lot of weekends off’ campaign trail
Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Election Update: Why Clinton Doesn't Have This Race Locked Up  —  Want these election updates emailed to you right when they're published?  Sign up here.  —  Hillary Clinton's chances of winning the presidency have held fairly steady in the FiveThirtyEight models over the past 10 days.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
NBC News:
First Read: The One Way Trump's Shake-Up Makes Sense  —  Donald Trump's new campaign manager: There's still time to turn polls around 1:00  —  First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Van Jones on the staggering political challenges Hillary Clinton would face as president  —  Van Jones is keenly aware of the political pressure that a new president can face.  He joined up with the Obama White House in its first year to be its “green jobs” czar.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CNN
Kevin Cole / Omaha World-Herald:
Omaha dad finds pot brownies, eats 4 of them, says mean things to cat  —  An Omaha dad who mistakenly ate some marijuana brownies didn't enjoy the experience.  —  Omaha police officers were called to a house near 90th and Maple Streets about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday to investigate an accidental overdose.
Scott Dadich / Wired:
WIRED Endorses Optimism  —  BEEN NEUTRAL.  —  For nearly a quarter of a century, this organization has championed a specific way of thinking about tomorrow.  If it's true, as the writer William Gibson once had it, that the future is already here, just unevenly distributed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Clinton Foundation hired cyber firm after suspected hacking: sources  —  Bill and Hillary Clinton's charitable foundation hired the security firm FireEye to examine its data systems after seeing indications they might have been hacked, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Ed Rendell: Clinton Foundation should be disbanded if Clinton wins
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Why Blacks Loathe Trump  —  So now Donald Trump is campaigning for the black vote.  (Long, awkward pause.)  —  Like so much of what Trump has said and done, this new outreach forces writers like me to conduct scatological studies, framing Trump's actions in their historical and intellectual absurdity.
Discussion: Business Insider
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Donald Trump aide on awkward exchange with CNN anchor: ‘I think I unraveled her’  —  An interview between a CNN anchor and a top aide to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump devolved into a palpably uncomfortable debate over polls on Wednesday evening.
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg:
Early Voting Dictates a New Clinton Campaign Structure  —  Campaigns in the past were structured around the map, but Clinton's campaign is built around the calendar.  —  For years, presidential campaigns seeking to divide the country into manageable chunks have turned to geography.
Discussion: Washington Post
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
House panel to probe claims of Clinton perjury  —  Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are planning to press officials from the FBI in a hearing scheduled for next month on allegations that Hillary Clinton  —  committed perjury.  —  A GOP committee aide confirmed to The Hill …
Discussion: USA Today, Daily Kos and Hot Air
Sean Ingle / Guardian:
Exclusive: Team GB member held up at gunpoint at Rio Olympics  —  A member of the British Olympic team in Rio has been held up at gunpoint while enjoying a night on the town.  —  The news has caused deep shock among British athletes and officials - many of whom were looking forward …
Discussion: NBC News and AOL
Harper Neidig / The Hill:
Fox News postpones Trump town hall  —  Fox News announced Tuesday night that it was postponing the airing of a town hall interview with Donald Trump  —  that was recored earlier in the evening.  —  Network anchor Sean Hannity was scheduled to moderate the event in Milwaukee …
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton sends Kaine into red territory  —  When Tim Kaine lands in Jackson for a pair of closed-door fundraisers on Thursday, it won't be because Hillary Clinton's running mate is desperate for Wyoming's three electoral votes.  —  The vice presidential contender's trip west to raise cash …
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Is Putin playing Trump like he did Berlusconi?  —  U.S. officials see parallels between Putin's courtships of Trump and the former Italian leader.  —  In January 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Rome cabled Washington to raise an alarm.  Russian President Vladimir Putin, the diplomat wrote …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Dave Levinthal / NBC News:
How Bernie Sanders Avoided Disclosing His Personal Finances  —  Hillary Clinton Thanks Bernie Sanders 1:37  —  This story was originally published by The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg:
Ads for Presidential Race Drop 60%, Hurting Local Broadcasters  —  Longer primaries and Trump's media strategy cause ad decline  —  Trump expected to start buying first TV ads in coming days  —  Spending on political advertising during the U.S. presidential election has dropped 60 percent from 2012 …
Discussion: The Week
Vicky Ward / Esquire:
Jared Kushner's Second Act  —  His father-in-law's bid for the White House is in shambles.  Is he the man to fix it?  —  In the spring of 2011, right around the time Donald Trump was humiliated by Barack Obama during the president's speech at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers  —  In 1962, in the midst of the civil rights movement, African-American residents of Jackson, Miss., went to court to challenge the racial segregation of the city's five municipal swimming pools, four of which were set aside for whites and one for blacks.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Held Cash Until Iran Freed Prisoners  —  An Iranian cargo plane left Geneva with $400 million in cash after a flight with Americans aboard took off from Tehran in January  —  WASHINGTON—New details of the $400 million U.S. payment to Iran earlier this year depict a tightly scripted …
Véronique Hyland / New York Magazine:
This Indie Brand Had a Great Response to Ivanka Trump  —  Jill Martinelli and Sabine Le Guyader have been designing the jewelry line Lady Grey since 2009, and in that time, Beyoncé and Rihanna have worn their designs.  But their most famous customer interaction may be the one they just had with Ivanka Trump.
 
 
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Elle Hunt / Guardian:
Boy in the ambulance: shocking image emerges of Syrian child pulled from Aleppo rubble
Discussion: Mother Jones and NBC News
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Leaked Faculty Letters and Race at Smith
Sarah Halzack / Washington Post:
Target to spend $20 million on single-stall bathrooms after backlash to its restroom policy
Discussion: USA Today, Hot Air, CNNMoney and NPR
Nancyl / Washington Monthly:
How Will the Media Handle the “Trump-light Zone”?
Joe Davidson / Washington Post:
‘Confusion at every level’ of the Park Service
Discussion: The Week
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Air Force officer faces investigation over Bible on his desk
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I've always voted Republican. Until now.
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Twists the Knife in Donald Trump's Tax Proposals
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Jan Brewer Clarifies Clinton “Lying Killer” Remark: It Was A “Stumble Of The Tongue”
 

 
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